Many people have asked me over the years why I do not support privacy invasive measures to detect the dissemination of child abuse imagery and the grooming of children in online environments. So given the EDPS Opinion published today in relation to a European Commission proposal to introduce a “temp| www.linkedin.com
On 27 July 2020, the European Commission published a Communication on an EU strategy for a more effective fight against child sexual abuse material (CSAM). As a long-term proposal is expected to be released by this summer, we review some of the fundamental rights issues posed by the initiatives that push for the scan of all private communications.| European Digital Rights (EDRi)
The automated scanning of everyone’s private communications, all of the time, constitutes a disproportionate interference with the very essence of the fundamental right to privacy. It can constitute a form of undemocratic mass surveillance, and can have severe and unjustified repercussions on many other fundamental rights and freedoms, too.| European Digital Rights (EDRi)
A great majority of EU citizens oppose the EU‘s plans for blanket messaging and chat control. This is the result of an opinion poll conducted by YouGov among 10,265 citizens from 10 EU countries. In search of “child pornography”, the EU wants to have the content of all private digital communicati| Patrick Breyer
On 1 July, EDRi and 47 civil society organisations sent a joint statement to the Hungarian Council Presidency and a number of member state permanent representatives. We call on the Council and European Parliament to demand that the European Commission withdraw the draft CSA Regulation.| European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Today EU governments will not adopt their position on the EU regulation on “combating child sexual abuse”, the so-called chat control regulation, as planned, which would have heralded the end of private messages and secure encryption. The Belgian Council presidency postponed the vote at short notice| Patrick Breyer
in a blog post from 7 August 2022, entitled "Children deserve protection and privacy", available at: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/commissioners/2019-2024/johansson/blog/children-deserve-protection-and-privacy_en Commissioner Ylva Johansson writes: "As for the detection of new CSAM, the accuracy rate lies significantly above 90%. There are technologies for the detection of new CSAM whose precision rate can be set at 99.9% (i.e., 0,1% false positive rate, which will then be subject to human ...| AsktheEU.org
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM| eur-lex.europa.eu
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence Take action to stop Chat Control now! The Chat Control 2.0 proposal in detail Changes proposed by the European Parliament| Patrick Breyer